Trade Pudgy Penguins in Panama

This page answers one question for Panama: how a resident actually gets PENGU exposure, and what the rules say.

Is Pudgy Penguins trading legal in Panama?

Panama neither bans crypto nor licenses it, and the two facts sit together. The Superintendencia del Mercado de Valores stated in Opinión 04-2025 of 27 August 2025 that cryptocurrencies such as ether and bitcoin are not among the products of the activities it supervises - investing for client account in securities, financial instruments and currencies - so regulating, supervising or overseeing crypto-related activity falls outside its competence, and a business built on custody and facilitation of crypto exchange needs no licence, registration or special authorisation from it.

What the contract is

The contract itself does not change by geography: a PENGU perpetual settles in USDC everywhere.

Sign up on Canborsa with email, X or a wallet

No document upload to open the account. Canborsa is non-custodial: your collateral stays under your own keys until a position opens.

Email X Wallet

Fund the account with USDC

Deposit USDC over Canton, Robinhood Chain, Ethereum, Base, BNB Chain or Arbitrum. Canborsa takes no fiat, so buying the USDC happens wherever you normally buy stablecoins.

→Robinhood Chain

Open PENGU-PERP

Pick PENGU in the markets list. The ticket shows the live price, the current funding rate and max leverage 5x .

PENGU-PERPPerpetual · USDC marginLONG

Choose Buy / Long, then set size and leverage

Buying $1,000 of PENGU at 5x uses $200 of collateral. Higher leverage moves the liquidation price closer to your entry: your exposure is the position size, whatever margin you posted. Set a stop-loss below your entry before you walk away.

The Dirección General de Ingresos states the general territorial principle: income tax is owed by whoever receives income from activities carried out in Panamanian territory, irrespective of nationality, domicile or residence, and the annual return covers income and the expenses originated or caused in Panama that produced the taxed profit.

Trading Pudgy Penguins from Panama: legal.

Regulator for Pudgy Penguins trading in Panama: Superintendencia del Mercado de Valores (SMV, securities), Superintendencia de Bancos de Panamá (SBP, banking) and Dirección General de Ingresos (DGI, taxation); none supervises virtual assets, since no legal framework exists.

Panama's Central Bank expects any licensed crypto financial institution to implement strong anti-money-laundering and KYC controls, including full due diligence on customers.

From Panama, you can fund a Pudgy Penguins position using USDT P2P (PAB) and Yappy.

15 platforms serve Panama for Pudgy Penguins trading, among them Aevo, ApeX and Aster.